http://DrivenOnline.org Driven Online, headlines 60 Driven Onlinehttp://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news74 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:00:00 +0000 Bawlz + Northern Dragons took 1st place at Blockparty 2008 with an invitation demo announcing the return of TMDC (Text Mode Demo Competition) but now under the ND banner - the winning demo was produced entirely by BarZoule. A three way co-op of Trailer Park Demos, Dolphin (a new group in North America), and Brainstorm (European) came in 2nd with solo scener Madbrain in third. Jeri Ellsworth and Fat Man (no, not the old c64 scener) took 1st place in the wild compo with an FPGA-based demo. Voom/Style won the graphics compo, and coda won both music compos. http://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news73 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Style has released what they claim is the world's first 256b gfx collection on c64, with eight load-and-run 256b gfx images, a 256b slideshower, and a 256b notefile. The collection features artwork by usual suspect, saehn/Style. Quotes Elwix/Style: 'Thank god for exomizer'. In other news, The Wiz/Style announced upcoming support for his new 256b disk image format (.d56) in the next version of DirMaster... http://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news72 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Retro64 return with Stacker, a game based on a popular standup arcade. This release comes three years after their last one, which was also a game. A further note of interest, is their addition of a member Warlock - another new NTSCer which would make two for the scene already in the past two months! http://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news71 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Not apt to rest for too long and apparently full on impatience, a few members of Northern Dragons take it upon themselves to one up NVScene 08 organizers by releasing their own invitation demo. With April Fool's only a couple weeks away the timing may seem off, but this demo gives something to PC scene freaks who are having trouble waiting for 08's first PC scene event, Blockparty... http://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news69 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:00:00 +0000 saehn/Style entered the graphics competition at the 8-bit demo party, Forever 2008, held in Slovakia from March 14th to 16th. His entry, titled 'Lilith', took first place edging out some other good entries in a field of eight. http://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news70 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:00:00 +0000 The mysterious Acer/Secret, whose last release dates back to April 2000, betrays his evidently 'close' relationship to an old (figuratively, literally, you decide) legend of NTSC, Moloch, in this one pager birthday wish demo. http://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news65 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Style releases a new version of their CBM disk image manipulation tool for Windows, DirMaster v2.0: new features include a plethora of additional supported formats, recursive find, batch processing, emulator invocation, archive extraction, and much more. All coding by The Wiz/Style, graphic/icon design by saehn/Style http://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news66 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Corporate entity NVidia announced today their intention to hold a new demo event in San Jose, CA on the 25th of August. Buzz around the event suggests it's heavily influenced by European sceners, and indeed NVidia appears to be partnering with Breakpoint and scene.org while listing well known Euros such as Gargaj/Conspiracy among the apparent organizers. With the success of Blockparty last year, 2008 promises to be quite interesting for North American PC sceners given the option to attend one or the other (or both) events, with their starkly contrasting elements. Check out the NVScene site for more info! http://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news67 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Whatever the end result, it has to be an applauded effort when a brand new NTSC scener steps out fearlessly to deliver their first C64 release. Such is the case for Darth Plagueis/KrionyX who puts forth an oldskool one-pager to announce his new group. We an only hope it isn't the last effort from him. http://DrivenOnline.org/index.php#news68 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Style releases their latest demo, the first of 2008, called Twist Of. Combining an artistic interpretation by saehn/Style and a coding interpretation by Six/Style, the demo is capped off by numerous user interactive parameters: so watch the premade twist patterns, and then make your own!